Old versions of Sonar run on new hardware, and vice-versa. Using Sonar with WinXP Pro 32-bit, I don't have to worry about proprietary and exorbitant hardware costs constant driver and OS incompatibility issues and worst of all, expensive and ineffective tech support. Sonar always installs quickly and easily-and runs beautifully-even on the D400 with its ancient, crappy SigmaTel sound card. So, in order to make all this happen, I need reliability and performance in my DAW.įor this review, I'm testing Sonar Producer Edition v6.2.1 on three PCs: a quad-core Intel Q6600 that I just finished building, a P4 3.2 HT, and a random old Dell Latitude D400 business laptop. I need to record, arrange, and edit all these tracks-and capture musical ideas quickly. These days, 30-60 instruments of Dimension Pro and Rapture, both of which are cross-platform software instruments from Cakewalk, are standard for me. For example, the songs "Your Touch" and "No One Like You" by Universal Recording artist Luminous (a collaboration with Hugh Padgham) are easily 100 tracks each. I might use 50 tracks for vocals alone, and another 40 for guitars. In my music production work, I employ huge audio and MIDI track counts, oodles of plug-ins, and heaps of audio editing.
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